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Category: 4. Health

  • Study reveals how alcohol abuse damages cognition

    Study reveals how alcohol abuse damages cognition

    For the first time researchers demonstrate in an animal how heavy alcohol use leads to long-term behavioral issues by damaging brain circuits critical for decision-making.

    Rats exposed to high amounts of alcohol exhibited poor decision-making during a complex task even after a months-long withdrawal period. Key areas of their brains had undergone dramatic functional changes compared to healthy rats.

    The findings, published today in Science Advances, provide a new explanation of alcohol’s…

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  • Scientists unveil starfish-inspired wearable tech for heart monitoring

    Scientists unveil starfish-inspired wearable tech for heart monitoring

    When we move, it’s harder for existing wearable devices to accurately track our heart activity. But University of Missouri researchers found that a starfish’s five-arm shape helps solve this problem. 

    Inspired by how a starfish flips itself over — shrinking one of its arms and using the others in a coordinated motion to right itself — Sicheng Chen and Zheng Yan in Mizzou’s College of Engineering and collaborators have created a starfish-shaped wearable device that tracks heart…

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  • First guideline on newborn screening for cystic fibrosis calls for changes in practice to improve outcomes

    First guideline on newborn screening for cystic fibrosis calls for changes in practice to improve outcomes

    The United States Cystic Fibrosis Foundation released the first guideline on newborn screening for cystic fibrosis (CF), in order to improve timely detection of CF in infants from all racial and ethnic backgrounds. The new guideline, based on systematic literature reviews and published in the International Journal of Neonatal Screening, reflects rigorous scientific investigation and perspectives from parents, CF specialists, public health representatives, primary care providers and genetic…

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  • Retinal therapy may restore lost vision

    Retinal therapy may restore lost vision

    Vision is one of the most crucial human senses, yet over 300 million people worldwide are at risk of vision loss due to various retinal diseases. While recent advancements in retinal disease treatments have successfully slowed disease progression, no effective therapy has been developed to restore already lost vision — until now. KAIST researchers have successfully developed a novel drug to restore vision.

    KAIST (represented by President Kwang Hyung Lee) announced on the 30th of March that…

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  • Multi-resistance in bacteria predicted by AI model

    Multi-resistance in bacteria predicted by AI model

    An AI model trained on large amounts of genetic data can predict whether bacteria will become antibiotic-resistant. The new study shows that antibiotic resistance is more easily transmitted between genetically similar bacteria and mainly occurs in wastewater treatment plants and inside the human body.

    “By understanding how resistance in bacteria arises, we can better combat its spread. This is crucial to protect public health and the healthcare system’s ability to treat infections,” says…

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  • Gold battles cancer | ScienceDaily

    Gold battles cancer | ScienceDaily

    Precious metals are not merely ornaments; they are also important components of pharmaceuticals, like the antitumor drug cisplatin. Recently, the search for alternatives with improved activity has begun to focus on gold. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, a French research team has now published the first study about the speciation and distribution of an organogold(III) complex in cancer cells and reveals how specially designed “organogold” complexes might open exciting avenues for fighting…

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  • Nurses and AI collaborate to save lives, reduce hospital stays

    Nurses and AI collaborate to save lives, reduce hospital stays

    An AI tool that analyzes nurses’ data and notes detected when patients in the hospital were deteriorating nearly two days earlier than traditional methods and reduced the risk of death by over 35%, found a year-long clinical trial of more than 60,000 patients led by researchers at Columbia University.

    The new AI tool, CONCERN Early Warning System, uses machine learning to analyze nursing documentation patterns to predict when a hospitalized patient is deteriorating before the change is…

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  • Being physically active, even just a couple of days a week, may be key to better health

    Being physically active, even just a couple of days a week, may be key to better health

    Being physically active for one to two days a week, often called a “weekend warrior,” may provide comparable health and life-prolonging benefits as smaller doses of daily physical activity if the physical effort is moderate to vigorous and totals 150 minutes a week in line with recommended guidelines for weekly physical activity, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access, peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association.

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  • Blood test may rule out future dementia risk

    Blood test may rule out future dementia risk

    Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have demonstrated how specific biomarkers in the blood can predict the development of dementia up to ten years before diagnosis, among older adults living independently in the community.

    A new study, published in Nature Medicine, has investigated the potential of specific biomarkers such as tau217, Neurofilament Light (NfL), and Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein (GFAP) to predict the occurrence of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, up to ten years…

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  • New antibiotic for multidrug resistant superbug

    New antibiotic for multidrug resistant superbug

    Researchers from the universities in Konstanz and Vienna discover a new class of antibiotic that selectively targets Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium that causes gonorrhoea. These substances trigger a self-destruction program, which also operates in multi-resistant variants of the pathogen. The novel findings are published in the current issue of Nature Microbiology.

    In recent years, the World Health Organization (WHO) has repeatedly warned of the increase in microbes resistant to…

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